200 Years of News at Google
The BBC reports that Google has added a feature to Google News that lets people search 200 years worth of news archives.The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online content.The search results for the archives can be opened as regular search results or as a timeline of events. For example, see the timeline results for searches for these famous people:
People using the search are shown results from both free and subscription-based news outlets.
Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New York Times and the Guardian from the UK.
Other sources include news aggregators, websites which collect and display news stories from multiple sources.
Posted on September 12, 2006
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